Position 616-05

The Citco Group•Jersey City, NJ

About The Position

Citco is seeking an experienced Senior Enterprise Architect to join its Architecture team. This senior technical leadership role is responsible for defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture across applications, platforms, data, cloud, and emerging technologies, with AI and agentic automation as key enabling capabilities. The role focuses on setting direction, standards, and guardrails to ensure scalable, secure, and well-governed solutions across the organization.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in enterprise or solution architecture roles
Strong background in large-scale, distributed enterprise systems
Proven experience designing cloud-native and hybrid architectures
Hands-on understanding of data, integration, and platform architectures
Experience incorporating AI and automation into enterprise solutions (not limited to AI platforms)
Strong enterprise architecture frameworks, principles, and governance experience
Deep expertise in application, data, integration, and cloud architecture
Strong programming background in Python and/or Node.js, with the ability to understand and guide implementation-level decisions
Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native design patterns (compute, storage, networking, serverless, IAM, etc.)
Strong understanding of security, compliance, and risk considerations
Experience with API-driven and event-driven architectures
Data architecture, governance, and integration patterns
Ability to translate strategy into executable architecture
Clear technical communication with senior stakeholders
AWS cloud platform (e.g., Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Step Functions, IAM)
Development using Python and/or Node.js
Large Language Models and GenAI technologies
RAG architectures and implementation patterns
Cloud AI services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Enterprise integration patterns
Security and compliance frameworks
Data architecture and governance

Responsibilities

Define and maintain enterprise architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, and platform domains
Establish architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures
Ensure consistent adoption of enterprise patterns across technology initiatives
Integrate AI, automation, and analytics capabilities into the broader enterprise architecture
Align technology architecture with business strategy and long-term roadmap
Provide architectural leadership across major enterprise initiatives
Guide solution architects and engineering teams on architecture decisions
Define reusable architectural patterns and shared platform capabilities
Act as a design authority for complex, cross-domain solutions
Balance innovation with stability, security, and operational maturity
Establish governance models for platforms, integrations, data, and AI-enabled solutions
Define security, compliance, and risk guardrails in collaboration with security and risk teams
Review solution designs for alignment with enterprise standards
Ensure architectural consistency across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem solutions
Promote observability, resiliency, and operational readiness by design
Review and approve AI solution designs
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards
Identify opportunities for reusable components
Guide teams on technical implementation approaches
Evaluate new AI technologies and platforms
Drive the evolution of Citco's AI platform capabilities
Evaluate emerging technologies including AI/GenAI, automation, and data platforms
Define how AI capabilities are responsibly embedded into enterprise solutions
Define roadmap for platform capabilities and features
Guide integration with existing enterprise systems